Normally, lakes and streams / rivers are refreshed with clean rain
water on a regular basis, however, because of the drought, this is not
happening, and a build of up bacteria is taking place in many of them.
Flesh eating bacteria and meningitis have been reported.
If your planning to swim in an area that has experienced a recent
drought even if some rain has fallen, you're taking a dangerous
risk.
Water parks and well kept swimming pools are no problem because of the
pool chemicals, especially pool chlorine. These chemicals are
designed to keep the pool water safe from high bacteria
concentrations.
Then the DotCom era turned me into an overpaid programmer. That's when
the NeoCons seized power here in the US - ending a period of screaming
prosperity. At the same time, I got hit with a case of Menningitis (brain infection) and went a little coo-koo. Now I'm back to developing web sites.
By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and Author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian”
I’ve started more than a dozen small businesses. For one, over $20 million was invested by me and investors who believed in me. I’ve paid payrolls, health insurance, payroll taxes, workers comp, and unemployment insurance for hundreds of employees.
Because of that, my employees were able to pay their mortgages, buy groceries, send their kids to college, and provide for their families. For this same small business, I spent about $50 million dollars on things like advertising, marketing, promotion, lawyers and accountants. That money enriched and employed thousands of others. And, that’s just one small business. Think of the impact that thirty million small business owners have on the U.S. economy. No wonder we create 70% or more of America’s new jobs. Small businessmen and women are a far more powerful economic force than Exxon, Microsoft, GE, or WalMart.
So why do Obama and his socialist cabal hate us? Why do small businessmen and women feel demonized and punished? Why is it Obama’s goal to drive us out of business?
Mug or rob me once? Maybe it’s ignorance or a mistake. Twice? It’s a pattern. But, coming up with ways to rob and destroy me and my businesses on a daily basis? It’s time to get the message. Without a doubt, Obama and the progressive left are the enemy of small business.
Let’s look at the facts.
For 30 years I have been able to deduct mortgage interest from my taxable income. Obama wants to end that. How many so-called "wealthy" taxpayers (i.e. small business owners) would no longer be able to pay their mortgage? How many homes would go into foreclosure? What would happen to the housing market? Overnight every home in America would lose 40% of its already decimated value. How many small businesses earn a living off of real estate? How many millions of jobs would be lost? Does this sound like a President looking to create jobs?
For 30 years FICA taxes have been based on earnings currently capped at just over $100,000 per year. Obama wants to remove the cap, thereby hitting small businessmen with the largest tax increase in history. Overnight a small business owner making $500,000 per year would see his or her FICA plus Medicare taxes go from about $15,000 per year to $75,000. That’s $75,000 before federal or state income taxes. That’s a $60,000 per year tax increase for a small business owner. That would drive hundreds of thousands of small business owners out of business. It would force layoffs. It would lower consumer spending and kill more jobs.
For 30 years I ran my business without the extra taxes to pay for Obamacare. Now we face new taxes on income, stock sales, home sales, even on tanning beds! Worse is the provision mandating we report annually to the IRS every vendor from whom we purchase more than $600 of goods and services during the year. The cost of complying with this Big Brother Gestapo mandate is unfathomable and threatens to drown millions of small businesses in paperwork.
For 30 years, most small businesses could raise capital without government permission. Obama and his socialist friends in Congress want to change that. Last year Democratic Senator Dodd tried to pass financial reform that included a provision increasing the amount of money one would have to earn to be considered an “accredited investor.” That would reduce the angel investor pool by an estimated 70% and require most PRIVATE businesses get permission from the SEC to raise money. Do you know what an SEC lawyer costs? Raising capital for any new startup would suddenly cost an extra $250,000 in legal fees…and take months, or years, to wait in line for SEC approval. This would kill new business start-ups. Who could come up with this idea? Only a Marxist looking to destroy the American economy, or perhaps a cabal of extortionist lawyers looking for government to mandate obscene new legal fees. Either way, it was a “Friend of Obama.”
For 30 years I ran my businesses without the White House being in partnership with the American Bar Association. Now Obama has found a way to encourage every lawsuit junkie and disgruntled employee to make up a story and sue their boss. Every caller to the White House alleging their boss has broken the law now gets assigned a lawyer willing to work for contingency (no fees up front). Say goodbye to American business...and goodbye to jobs.
Keep in mind that all those new taxes and regulations mentioned above are aimed at people who risk their own money to start businesses. Collectively we risk trillions. Our courage and capitalism fuels the economy and creates over 70% of new jobs. Our taxes pay for government and all those government employees with their obscene pensions. Running a business often requires working sixteen-hour days and is the hardest thing you’ll ever do. If our reward for all this risk, sacrifice and work ethic is to be punished and demonized, why would we keep doing it?
This is no mistake or coincidence. This is a purposeful plan to destroy capitalism. And the best way to destroy capitalism is to destroy small business. Obama is trying to redistribute our wealth and create a jobs crisis. He can’t stand that we small business owners don’t need or want government to save us. So he’s out to ruin our businesses, and bring us to our knees begging for government to help. And as a bonus, he gets to wipe out the biggest contributors to conservative causes -- small business. In other words, killing small business wipes out Obama’s political opposition.
Yes, ladies and gentleman, we have met the enemy of small business…and he resides in the White House.
Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. He is the best-selling author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts." His web site: www.ROOTforAmerica.com
> the green flash wrote:
>> Why Does Obama Hate Small Business?
>> posted by Wayne Allyn Root on Mar 25, 2011
>> By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and
>> Author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian”
> There are still Libertarians?
> Why?
> Didn't Ron Paul leaving the party pretty > much spell an end to it?
The NEED for a leader to follow
should be considered NOUGHT but a Weakness to overcome.
This is your world on LIBs
Bound between Che and Sponge Bob!
The real Obama is a man shaped by experiences far different from those of most Americans; he is a much stranger, more determined, and exponentially more dangerous man than you’d ever imagined. He is not motivated by the civil rights struggles of African Americans in the 1960sthose battles leave him wholly untouched. He is not motivated by the socialist or Marxist propaganda that hypnotized a whole generation of wooly minded academics and condescending liberals those concepts also leave him cold.
What really motivates Barack Obama is an inherited rage an often masked, but profound rage that comes from his African father; an anticolonialist rage against Western dominance, and most especially against the wealth and power of the very nation Barack Obama now leads. It is this rage that explains the previously inexplicable, and that gives us a startling look at what might lie ahead.
In The Roots of Obama’s Rage you’ll learn: Why Obama’s economic policies are actually designed to make America poorer compared to the rest of the world Why Obama will welcome a nuclear Iran Why Obama sees America as a rogue nation worse than North Korea The real reason Obama banished a bust of Winston Churchill from the White House and ordered NASA to praise the scientific contributions of Muslims Why Obama would like to make America’s superpower status a thing of the past
Stunning, provocative, original, and telling no one has better diagnosed who Obama is, what he intends to do, and why he poses an existential threat to America than Dinesh D’Souza in The Roots of Obama’s Rage.
Over the next two years, however, my experiences in the Clinton White
House turned my gratitude and awe into shock, revulsion, and sorrow as
I experienced the cavalier and self-serving way Clinton went about the
business of running our country. I wrote my first book, Dereliction of
Duty, documenting our former President's contempt for the military, his
indifference to important issues except insofar as they served his own
political or personal purposes, and his failure to accept his
responsibilities as our commander-in-chief. Indeed, it is my sincere
belief that the dereliction of duty and negligence of Bill Clinton
paved the way for the tragic events and deaths of September 11, 2001.
At the time I left my position in the Clinton White House I certainly
couldn’t have imagined we’d elect anyone more inept than Bill Clinton.
Nor could I have predicted that just seven years after we’d been
attacked and gone to war, we’d elect the most radical left-wing
president in our nation’s history. Few seem to have noticed, until
recently, that Barack Obama is inclined to dispense with the key
precepts our forefathers valued: a robust defense of American
sovereignty and our national interest for one; limited government for
another; fiscal prudence for a third.
>> On 8/10/2012 11:31 AM, Lee Curtis wrote:
>> > the green flash wrote:
>> > > Why Does Obama Hate Small Business?
>> > > posted by Wayne Allyn Root on Mar 25, 2011
>> > > By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee
>> > > and Author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian"
>> > There are still Libertarians?
>> Yes.
>> > Why?
>> Because we _used to _ venerate liberty in this nation, some few still
>> do.
> Liberty to do what? Pollute? Flood the market
> with faulty products? Maintain dangerous sweatshops
> to make them in?
>> > Didn't Ron Paul leaving the party pretty
>> > much spell an end to it?
>> Thankfully, no.
>> There are still committed patriots who recall and wish to recreate
>> the very principles this nation was founded upon.
> What principles are those?
Not surprised you wouldn't know what they are
Pinkies have no principles which is why lies, libel and slander, and other bad behavior, right up to mass murder, are perfectly OK to them
It's a progressive thing, just like their crimes against society
Plagiarized by the green flash thus showing his disdain for "small business" and the law.
> By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and
> Author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian”
> I’ve started more than a dozen small businesses. For one, over $20
> million was invested by me and investors who believed in me. I’ve paid
> payrolls, health insurance, payroll taxes, workers comp, and
> unemployment insurance for hundreds of employees.
> Because of that, my employees were able to pay their mortgages, buy
> groceries, send their kids to college, and provide for their families.
Odd that he dos not mention how much these people were paid or if he provided health care.
> For this same small business, I spent about $50 million dollars on
> things like advertising, marketing, promotion, lawyers and accountants.
> That money enriched and employed thousands of others. And, that’s just
> one small business. Think of the impact that thirty million small
> business owners have on the U.S. economy. No wonder we create 70% or
> more of America’s new jobs. Small businessmen and women are a far more
> powerful economic force than Exxon, Microsoft, GE, or WalMart.
> So why do Obama and his socialist cabal hate us? Why do small
> businessmen and women feel demonized and punished? Why is it Obama’s
> goal to drive us out of business?
> Mug or rob me once? Maybe it’s ignorance or a mistake. Twice? It’s a
> pattern. But, coming up with ways to rob and destroy me and my
> businesses on a daily basis? It’s time to get the message. Without a
> doubt, Obama and the progressive left are the enemy of small business.
> Let’s look at the facts.
None so far.
> For 30 years I have been able to deduct mortgage interest from my
> taxable income. Obama wants to end that. How many so-called "wealthy"
> taxpayers (i.e. small business owners) would no longer be able to pay
> their mortgage? How many homes would go into foreclosure? What would
> happen to the housing market? Overnight every home in America would lose
> 40% of its already decimated value. How many small businesses earn a
> living off of real estate? How many millions of jobs would be lost? Does
> this sound like a President looking to create jobs?
No facts just arbitrary questions.
> For 30 years FICA taxes have been based on earnings currently capped at
> just over $100,000 per year. Obama wants to remove the cap, thereby
> hitting small businessmen with the largest tax increase in history.
> Overnight a small business owner making $500,000 per year would see his
> or her FICA plus Medicare taxes go from about $15,000 per year to
> $75,000. That’s $75,000 before federal or state income taxes. That’s a
> $60,000 per year tax increase for a small business owner. That would
> drive hundreds of thousands of small business owners out of business. It
> would force layoffs. It would lower consumer spending and kill more jobs.
This $500,000 a year comes from profits. That $60,000 a year does not affect overall profit.
Net before taxes would be $485,000 in the one case
and $425,000 in the second.
Probably more than most of their employees made and you can be sure that the owners health care and probably transportation came out of the business.
Poor babies, only taking home $35,416.67 a month before taxes.
> For 30 years I ran my business without the extra taxes to pay for
> Obamacare. Now we face new taxes on income, stock sales, home sales,
> even on tanning beds! Worse is the provision mandating we report
> annually to the IRS every vendor from whom we purchase more than $600 of
> goods and services during the year. The cost of complying with this Big
> Brother Gestapo mandate is unfathomable and threatens to drown millions
> of small businesses in paperwork.
Bullshit.
<snip>
> Keep in mind that all those new taxes and regulations mentioned above
> are aimed at people who risk their own money to start businesses.
Some of their own money as he mentions above and no mention of government funding that helps start up businesses.
<snip>
> Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee. He
> now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional
> Committee. He is the best-selling author of "The Conscience of a
> Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold &
> Tax Cuts." His web site: www.ROOTforAmerica.com
>>> On 8/10/2012 11:31 AM, Lee Curtis wrote:
>>> > the green flash wrote:
>>> > > Why Does Obama Hate Small Business?
>>> > > posted by Wayne Allyn Root on Mar 25, 2011
>>> > > By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee
>>> > > and Author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian"
>>> > There are still Libertarians?
>>> Yes.
>>> > Why?
>>> Because we _used to _ venerate liberty in this nation, some few still
>>> do.
>> Liberty to do what? Pollute? Flood the market
>> with faulty products? Maintain dangerous sweatshops
>> to make them in?
>>> > Didn't Ron Paul leaving the party pretty
>>> > much spell an end to it?
>>> Thankfully, no.
>>> There are still committed patriots who recall and wish to recreate
>>> the very principles this nation was founded upon.
>> What principles are those?
> Not surprised you wouldn't know what they are
> Pinkies have no principles which is why lies, libel and slander, and
> other bad behavior, right up to mass murder, are perfectly OK to them
> It's a progressive thing, just like their crimes against society
The guy is a total America-hating, cynical nutbar.
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:57:48 -0500, Lee Curtis wrote:
<snip>
> Liberty to do what? Pollute? Flood the market
> with faulty products? Maintain dangerous sweatshops to make them in?
<snip>
If you see a fault in a product, it is your responsibility to contact
the manufacturer and explain their error. Thus, you will serve your
fellow citizen by improving their product.
The ultimate of this would be in North Korea, where the manager and
assembly line workers responsible for the faulty product would be fed
to the military. Boiled. Or possibly fried if they have any vegetable
oil. Which would be highly unlikely.
Our methods in the US are not as good, and thus we fall behind North Korea... further and further....
> Not surprised you wouldn't know what they are
> Pinkies have no principles which is why lies, libel and slander, and other
> bad behavior, right up to mass murder, are perfectly OK to them
> It's a progressive thing, just like their crimes against society
> How long will YOU bow down to what the Republicans say God wants
> before you realize there's nothing in it for you?
What are you blabbering about, moron ?
Oh and what you cut to remove context, I can paste back to show you for
a moron
So your non-sequitur approach is doomed to failure.
GARY ROSELLES (aka "liberal@idiot...") left-wing sociopath and author
of the following “views” on race, homosexuality, death-threats and,
lest we forget, killing govt. officials and teenage girls:
"She (Katherine Harris) should be at least shot" -- Gary Roselles
What the fuck would a dumb cocksucker like (Distinguished African-
American Scholar, Thomas) Sowell, who sits out at Stanford, never
having worked a day in his Uncle Tom life, know anything?" -- Gary
Roselles
"He (African-American scholar Thomas Sowell) goes against his own
kind." Race loyalist Gary Roselles, insisting once again that “them
blacks” should "stick to their own kind"
"His appointment will bridge nothing. It's apparant he's being an
uncle tom to appease voters." -- White trash, racist asshole Gary
Roselles slurs African-American Hero General Colin Powell
"How does a pampered, Stanford based, Scaife funded, Uncle Tom make
judgements on "the bottom", McFly?" -- Another day, another racial
slur on an educated, successful, independent black man from Gary
Roselles
"You're like that kid that has just been told that's not a hot-dog
he's sucking on" -- Gary Roselles, Pedophile, admits forcing oral
copulation on a child
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:57:48 -0500, Lee Curtis wrote:
> <snip>
>> Liberty to do what? Pollute? Flood the market
>> with faulty products? Maintain dangerous sweatshops to make them in?
> <snip>
> If you see a fault in a product, it is your responsibility to contact
> the manufacturer and explain their error. Thus, you will serve your
> fellow citizen by improving their product.
Yeah, that has always worked well.
Tobacco and the car industry come to mind with most of the food industry coming in close.
"Creamy fat free" milk is one of the latest tries. They add a few odds and ends to make it creamy.
Then they add sugar.
I give a bunch of it out every week and when I mention the sugar most drop it because they are diabetic.
> On 8/10/2012 11:30 PM, bobo fizmarkian wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:57:48 -0500, Lee Curtis wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Liberty to do what? Pollute? Flood the market
>>> with faulty products? Maintain dangerous sweatshops to make them in?
>> <snip>
>> If you see a fault in a product, it is your responsibility to contact
>> the manufacturer and explain their error. Thus, you will serve your
>> fellow citizen by improving their product.
> Yeah, that has always worked well.
> Tobacco and the car industry come to mind
The International Olympic Committee announced today that it has taken back
the gold medal previously awarded to American skier Lindsey Vonn and given
it to Nobel Prize Winner President Barack Obama.
Olympic officials said Obama deserved the medal more than Vonn because no
one has ever led his country downhill faster than he has.
-- Q: What's the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
On Aug 13, 11:06 am, George Kerby <ghost_top...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> The International Olympic Committee announced today that it has taken back
> the gold medal previously awarded to American skier Lindsey Vonn and given
> it to Nobel Prize Winner President Barack Obama.
> Olympic officials said Obama deserved the medal more than Vonn because no
> one has ever led his country downhill faster than he has.
The decision was then rescinded after they had realized that George
Bush increased unemployment by 50% within an 8-month period prior to
his departure from office while at the same time created the worst
economic crash in US history with its prolonging effects lasting to
this day and possibly years to come, so it was unanimously decided
that Bush would receive the honor of the golden medal. From his
Crawford Ranch Bush was too drunk to respond to the news.
